Tuesday, 24 January 2012

Working Title Films - Budget, Gross and Success

Four Weddings and a Funeral;
Budget of $4.5 million and grossed $244 million worldwide, meaning a profit of $239 million. The film is a romantic comedy, and at the time of release in 1994 it was the highest grossing British film of all time.

Shaun of the Dead;
Budget of £4 million, grossed $13.5 million (£8.6 million). The film is a horror comedy, starring Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield and Simon Pegg and was released in 2004.

Johnny English Reborn;
Budget of $45 million, and grossed $8 million, meaning a loss of $37 million. The film is an adventure comedy, starring Rowan Atkinson, Rosamund Pike and Dominic West and was released in 2011.

He's Just Not That Into You;
Budget of $40 million, grossed $165 million, meaning a profit of $125 million. The film is a comedy/drama/romance, starring Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Connelly and Morgan Lily and was released in 2009.

Notting Hill;
Budget of $42 million, grossed $247 million, meaning a profit of $205 million. The film is a romantic comedy, starring Hugh Grant, Julia Roberts and Richard McCabe and was released in 1999.

Bridget Jones Diary;
Had a budget of $26 million, grossed $71.5 million, meaning a profit of $45.5 million. The film is a romantic comedy, starring Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth and Hugh Grant and was released in 2001.

We have noticed a pattern in that the most successful Working Title films are romantic comedies or comedies of another type. Therefore Working Title probably would not be an ideal choice of production company for our film. However, we have noticed that recently they have expanded into the thriller and drama genres more - with films such as Contraband and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.


by Lauren, Rana and Rebecca

Thursday, 19 January 2012

DVD Cover


Idea for our DVD cover. If we were to make a final copy, we would replace the girl's face with the face of our main character. I created this on photoshop by reducing the opacity of the photograph in the foreground, contrasting it with the bright city lights in the background. I thought that this worked with the storyline of our film - the character being lost into the chaos of the city. I chose to use this font to match in with the font of the titles and credits in our opening. I also added in the age rating we had decided would be appropriate for our film.

by Rebecca

Music created for the club scene

Media Club Scene by beckyd

I have created this track to use as the music in the club scene using Sony Acid X software. We decided that we should create our own music in order to avoid any issues with copyrighted material, and so that we could make sure that the music was a perfect fit with the mood we wanted for the scene. The music needed to be fast paced with a darker feel than usual 'dance' music, therefore I added deeper tracks in the background to add atmosphere and also so that the suspense is maintained.

by Rebecca

Sunday, 15 January 2012

Test Shoot - Alleyway scene







When we shot our alley way scene it was light outside, however when it comes to filming the real thing we will be doing it at night time using lights. It was difficult to edit the outside lighting on iMovie. We used lots of long shots in this scene, but when it comes to the actual thing we will use more close ups, medium close ups and extreme long shots as the character is walking by. During the fight scene we might film parts of it from the point of view of one of the characters. We muted the natural sounds as it did not fit with the clip, therefore we will add music at different volume levels whilst the character walks further away from the club, this will fit the scene more. The main character walking drunk will not walk as unstable as she did because it looked to staged and not real.


by Lauren, Rana and Rebecca